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How Rochester Schools Grapple With Their Teacher Diversity Gap
Christopher Fields is rare in the teaching profession. He’s an African-American man, and he teaches sixth-grade English at East Lower School. According to the U.S. Department of Education, you’d have to stop by more than 50 classrooms in this country before you found one black male teacher. “We have a lot of African-American male students […]
Read MoreMenTeach E-News – November 2016
MenTeach E-News November 2016 1) Thoughts from the Inaugural Northern California Men and Child Care Conference 2) 2016 National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) report and Awards 3) Wellington’s Y-Men programme trying to increase the low male ECE teacher numbers 4) 2014 & 2016 EC-MENZ – New Zealand Reports 5) Improving gender […]
Read MoreMen in Early Childhood-Colorado Audio Digital Story Project
Over the last six months, Men in Early Childhood-Colorado has been working on an audio digital story project. The purpose of this project was to gather stories from men who are studying ECE, working in the ECE field currently, or had worked in the ECE field. After the completion of the interviews in June 2016, […]
Read MoreStudents Of Color Increasing And Teachers Of Color Not – Here’s Why And What We Can Do About It
Promoting diversity to increase the number of Black male teachers, and Hispanic male teachers, in public schools is vital to improving the educational outcomes for boys and young men of color to put them on a path to success. For the first time in history, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Black, […]
Read MoreLack of African-American male educators is killing public education
According to researchers Ana Maria Villegas and Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, minority teachers, as role models, improved the self-worth of minority students. Others found that a diverse teaching population improved academic achievement for minorities along with the educational climate for white students. Educators and the makers of policy have spoken about the need to diversify the […]
Read MoreNew figures reveal which region has the highest percentage of male teachers in England
Torbay has the highest percentage of male primary and secondary teachers in the country. But education charity Teach First is calling for more men in the South West to become teachers, as the latest figures show a stubborn gender gap in the profession. The latest Government statistics reveal that just 28.4 per cent of teachers […]
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